--- title: It is said that when the king rode out on horseback, he often took T… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It is said that when the king rode out on horseback, he often took Tom along with him, and if a shower came on, he used to creep into his majesty's waistcoat-pocket, where he slept till the rain was over. Who acts: king, shower, Tom, rain. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Hi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The History of Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/) / 39 # English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 39 It is said that when the king rode out on horseback, he often took Tom along with him, and if a shower came on, he used to creep into his majesty's waistcoat-pocket, where he slept till the rain was over. **Who acts:** king, shower, Tom, rain · **What happens:** say, ride out, take, come on, use, creep · **To what, where:** favourite, horseback, Tom, waistcoat pocket · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, shower, Tom, rain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:28:39 # text = It is said that when the king rode out on horseback, he often took Tom along with him, and if a shower came on, he used to creep into his majesty's waistcoat-pocket, where he slept till the rain was over. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 out out ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 horseback horseback NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 along along ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 shower shower NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 26 on on ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 creep creep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 waistcoat waistcoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 42 advmod _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 43 till till SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 47 over over ADV RB _ 42 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | favourite | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ride out** | past | the king | | | horseback | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | past | king | | Tom | | | with Tom; along, often *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument tom=Destination | | 4 | **come on** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a shower | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **use** | past | Tom | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **creep** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* | | | Tom's majesty's waistcoat pocket | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pocket=Destination | | 7 | **sleep** | past | Tom | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | past | the rain | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/40/) - ↑ back to [The History of Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/)